What IS good, and how do we determine it?

[abaris]

From what I understood, he (randy) still belives those things are wrong and that God does not condone them. But believes God had to integrate Himself slowly, otherwise it wouldn't have made a difference.

Have you actually read the Randy quote Nope posted earlier on this page? There's not much room for a friendly interpretation of that one.

Also the argument of times being different doesn't fly in this case. While Yahweh supposedly taught the Israelites to be less harmful in their rapist attitudes, the Egyptians, who never heard of him, treated men and women pretty much as equals.